Covering all of Baldwin County, AL every Friday. Chromebook help and A message from the superintendent The Baldwin Times PAGE 4 APRIL 17, 2020 | GulfCoastNewsToday.com | 75¢ Stuck at Ear-resistible home? Fill out your urge to help 2020 Census By JESSICA VAUGHN 3rd grader aims to comfort health care workers [email protected] Many are feeling By ALLISON MARLOW pital corridors with patients. the impact of COVID- [email protected] He also knew that the 19 as more and more strain on their ears from people find themselves Nine-year-old Jackson the tight elastic bands of at home during these O'Connell knew that health- their masks was painful. So unprecedented times. care workers were working painful that he colorfully SUBMITTED PHOTO One thing that every- hard as the coronavirus con- Jackson O’Connell, of Gulf Shores, is 3-D printing devices to take the one can do during this tinued to spread and fill hos- SEE EAR, PAGE 2 pressure off of healthcare workers’ ears when they wear masks. time, whether they’re quarantined at home or still working out in the field, is fill out their 2020 Census. The process is easy Some businesses booming during outbreak and takes ten minutes or less to do. No per- By JOHN UNDERWOOD sonal questions will [email protected] be asked concerning ROBERTSDALE — Business SEE CENSUS, PAGE 3 is booming at meat markets, garden supply stores and OUR COMMITMENT hardware stores in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. TO OUR READERS “Business is actually doing Wind, rain or quarantine, we’ll keep pretty well,” said Erin Chil- you updated. In the event that we dress Salyers, co-owner of are unable to deliver newspapers, Farm Fresh Meats in Roberts- we can deliver the full edition right dale. “We have a lot of local to your inbox. Please send us your suppliers and are able to keep email address so we can add you up with the demand of our to our electronic delivery list if customers.” needed as developments continue The bigger markets are in the COVID-19 pandemic. having trouble keeping their Send your email to meat stocked, Salyers said, JOHN UNDERWOOD / STAFF PHOTO [email protected]. and a lot of people are afraid An employee serves a customer at Farm Fresh Meats in Robertsdale. In an effort to help keep our neigh- to go in and shop at the bigger bors safe, you can read the most up-to-date information about the markets. March 28. Now they post have their order delivered to the decision to stop accept- virus for free everyday at Farm Fresh closed its doors inventory on Facebook and their car outside. www.gulfcoastnewstoday.com to the public on Saturday, customers can call ahead and Last week, they also made SEE BOOMING, PAGE 6 COVID-19 Signs & Symptoms Coronaviruses (CoV) are a family of viruses that cause the common cold as well as more severe diseases. COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 is a strain of coronavirus that had not been previously identified in humans, making it a novel coronavirus. The Updates: disease caused by this virus is known as COVID-19. Source: World Health Organization Updates on COVID-19 can be found at the World Health Organization Protect Yourself & Others website at who.int. Updates can also Fever • Cough • Shortness of Breath be found at www.cdc.gov/COVID19. Symptoms can range from mild to severe. 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Stay at home when sick until your symptoms are gone. Tested from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. Source: National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) Deaths Page 5 Gulf None Coast Media VOLUME 129 • ISSUE 49 1 SECTION • 20 PAGES 2 • The Baldwin Times • April 17, 2020 • Gulf Coast Media The Baldwin Times Suspect arrested for multiple 901 N. McKenzie St., Foley, AL 36535-3546 PHONE: (251) 943-2151 | FAX: (251) 943-3441 construction site thefts [email protected] STAFF REPORT County Sheriff’s Depart- site. Allison Marlow Classified Advertising ment, assisted by Foley Weston was charged Managing Editor Lindsay Walker FOLEY — During the Police Department, ar- with possession of bur- allisonm@gulfcoast lindsay@gulfcoast months of March and rested James Sylvester glars’ tools, possession media.com media.com April, multiple breaking Weston, Sr. (64). A sec- of drug paraphernalia, and entering incidents ond suspect left on foot. theft of property 4th de- Tony Whitehead Legal Advertising occurred within the Officers pursued the gree, and a driving while Sports Editor April M. Perry Myrtlewood Subdivi- suspect, but were un- revoked warrant. He has tony@gulfcoast legals@gulfcoast sion in Foley. Many sites able to locate him. Upon since been released from media.com media.com are under construction, further investigation, of- jail on a $2,500 bond. which resulted in the ficers were able to locate The Baldwin County theft of multiple appli- brand new appliances Sheriff’s Department Parks Rogers ances from the sites. in the suspect’s home, is further investigating Publisher During an attempted which they believe to the incident and the [email protected] theft on Cherrywood be the appliances stolen location of the second Drive, the Baldwin from the construction suspect. Weston, Sr. To subscribe, make an address change or vacation delivery stop, you may call our office at (251) 943-2151, go online at www.gulfcoastnewstoday.com and click on the “e-edition” link in the black toolbar. Under “don’t have an id’ there is an option for EAR prints custom key With a little help ear guards but now how to become a subscriber, or email amber@gulfcoastmedia. chains and book bag from his biggest inves- they want us to call com. CONTINUED FROM 1 tags on his trusty 3-D tors, mom and dad, them ear savers.” ©Gulf Coast Media 2019. No part of this newspaper may be printer. Now, he has Jackson now has three Currently Jackson reproduced without the prior written consent of the group describes it as compa- shifted to printing ear printers cranking out has a list of more than publisher or associate publisher. Opinions of editorial or general rable to having their guards all day, every the ear savers. It takes 1,000 healthcare work- columnists or those reflected in submitted letters do not ears “chopped off.” day. just over an hour to ers who have requested necessarily reflect the editorial position of this newspaper. The Gulf Shores El- The simple devices print a set of eight on an ear saver and Jack- The Baldwin Times (USPS 040-560) is published weekly, ementary School third stretch across the back one printer. So far, son is printing as fast with its office located at 901 N. McKenzie St., in Foley, AL 36535. grader simply couldn’t of the head and have Jackson has crafted as his machines will Periodicals postage paid at Foley, AL 36535. Subscription rates: In-county annual, $40.00 plus local sales tax; six-month, let that continue to a series of branches and shipped out 600 ear allow. $24.00 plus local sales tax; senior citizen annual, $38.00 plus happen. to hold the elastic in savers. “We will print all day local sales tax; six-month, $22.50 plus local sales tax; and out- So, he is on a mis- place, giving ears a And, Jackson says so everyone has one,” of-county annual, $79.00, six-month, $40.00. sion to make the masks much needed break. proudly, he has them he said. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: The Baldwin Times, of every healthcare Many are emblazoned available in all colors. 901 N. McKenzie St., Foley, AL 36535-3546. worker he can reach with the word “Hero” So far, they have been To make a donation more comfortable as in the center. a hit with the health- to help with the cost they fight the battle of “I like to know that care workers he has of printing and ship- a lifetime. I’m helping people. I donated to. ping them to healthcare Jackson, the CEO don’t want anything “They really like workers or to request an and sole employee of bad to happen to any- them,” Jackson said. ear saver visit jaxbag- Jax Bag Tags, normally one,” Jackson said. “They used to call them tags.com. Gulf Coast Media • April 17, 2020 • The Baldwin Times • 3 Learn to raise chickens Submitted Would you like to learn how to raise chick- ens? Youth ages 9-18 can register for the 4-H Chick Chain Project now. Each participant will Favorolle. receive 10-day-old chicks The Project concludes (female) to raise at home.